Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando
| Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando | |
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| Artist | Edgar Degas |
| Year | 1879 |
| Type | Oil painting |
| Dimensions | 117.2 cm × 77.5 cm (46.1 in × 30.5 in) |
| Location | National Gallery, London |
Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando is a painting by Edgar Degas, the French Impressionist artist, now in the collection of the National Gallery in London, England. It shows the acrobat Miss La La hanging on a rope by her teeth at the Cirque Fernando in Montmartre, Paris.
The painting was bought by the Trustees of the Courtauld Fund in 1925. It was returned from the Tate Gallery to the National Gallery in 1950.
External links
- Information from the National Gallery
- Degas: The Artist's Mind, exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art fully available online as PDF, which contains material on Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando (see index)
Bibliography
- Degas, Miss La La, and the Cirque Fernando. Exh. cat. ed. by Linda Wolk-Simon, with Nancy Ireson and Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York 2013.
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